Interviews

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NanoFlash Investigation with Ben King (parts 1 and 2)

31/08/2010

Rick Young
Broadcast Editor Ben King, investigates Convergent Designs NanoFlash. The aim is to see just how much difference it makes working with full 4:2:2 image processing and at higher bitrates. The NanoFlash is is a portable device which accepts video in via SDI or HDMI. It can be used to record a full broadcast signal out of affordable cameras, bypassing the image compression which these cameras natively employ.

Richard Shackleton - The Foundry

10/07/2010

Rick Young
The Foundry is regarded as being world leading innovator of visual effects and image processing technologies that boost productivity in motion picture and video post production. The Foundry's products support a wide range of award-winning host platforms including After Effects, Autodesk® Media and Entertainment Systems, Avid DS, Nuke, Shake and Final Cut Pro. In 2007, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded a Sci-Tech Award® to The Foundry's development team for the Furnace image processing suite.

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AJA KI Pro: real-world operation

26/06/2010

Sidney Lobb and Rick Young
Recorded in Rome, this interview with Project Engineer, Sidney Lobb, gives insight as to how AJA's Ki Pro can be used in a professional situation. Designed as a ProRes recorder, the Ki Pro can be used to replace traditional decks, and also to enable up conversion, down conversion, cross conversion of video signals. One can use the Ki Pro to bypass the compression of the affordable cameras and achieve superior results to highly compressed codecs.

Stuart Ashton - General Manager EMEA, Blackmagic Design (parts 1 and 2)

04/05/2010

Rick Young
An in-depth discussion about DaVinci Resolve on the Mac: what this means for the world of color correction, different options offered in the DaVinci range, key features which DaVinci offers and the Blackmagic strategy for making high-end tools affordable and within reach of everyone.

Dennis Radeke: Adobe Certified Expert

19/04/2010

Rick Young
In this piece Dennis Radeke talks about the significance of the 64 bit, native cocoa functionality of Adobe CS5, the integration with Final Cut Pro, the Mercury playback engine, and the benefits the latest carnation of the software brings to the users.CS5 is an eagerly awaited upgrade to Adobe's CS5 and is expected to ship within the month.

Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 3 & 4)

02/01/2010

Rick Young
Featuring: Claudio von Planta - War Cameraman/Journalist; Jonathan Walls- Co-Director/Editor; Lenny Lipton - Independent Filmmaker; Michael Wohl - original Final Cut Pro Development Team; Vaughan Smith - War Cameraman/Journalist; Walter Murch - Feature Film Editor; Tom Ohanian - Founding team Avid Technology; Jerry Hofmann - Digital Video Pioneer; Ramy Katrib - CEO and Founder, DigitalFilm Tree; The Ken Stone Sessions (part 1).

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Best of MacVideo Interviews 2009 (parts 1 and 2)

28/12/2009

Rick Young
Featuring: Tom Robotham - inventor of Blender light, Noah Kadner - digital video expert; Brian Valente - Redrock Micro; Bob Daniels - CDIA; John Rule - Rule Broadcast; M Dot Strange - filmmaker; Larry Jordan - 2-Pop Founder; Anthony Artis - filmmaker; Arthur C. Smith III - filmmaker; Glenn Kennel - Arriflex.

H.264 - the modern codec for distribution

23/11/2009

Rick Young
Wayne Andrews, Mac Product Manager from Matrox, talks in-depth about the importance of H.264 as a distribution codec and how Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with superior speed to the technology used by Apple in the creation of H.264 files.

Blackmagic buys da Vinci

14/09/2009

Rick Young
Blackmagic Design has announced the purchase of all assets of DaVinci Systems LLC. This purchase means Blackmagic Design will now offer DaVinci Resolve DI color correction systems and DaVinci Revival film restoration products for sale worldwide. Since 1984 DaVinci have been, and continue to be, the standard in post production. The acquisition propels Blackmagic to the highest echelons of the production world.

IBC SuperMeet Preview - Dan Berube and Michael Horton

06/09/2009

Rick Young
The agenda is now set for the Second Annual Amsterdam FCPUG SuperMeet to be held Sunday, 13 September 2009 at The Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Dam Square, the heart of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Doors open at 16:30 with an FCP Showcase with 26 exhibitors; Presentations begin at 19:00 and continue until 23:30. Headlining the event is Final Cut Pro co-creator Michael Wohl.

Wayne Andrews, Mac Product Manager, Matrox

06/07/2009

Rick Young
Wayne Andrews from Matrox runs through the latest encoding technology, including accelerated H.264 encoding for Mac towers and Mac laptops with Express 34 slot. Matrox CompressHD features the first implementation of Matrox MAX technology in an H.264 accelerator card for the Mac. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with quickly and system resources are free for other tasks.

Shifting Paradigms - interview with Jerry Hofmann

05/05/2009

Rick Young
Jerry Hofmann is a veteran of the video world, having first worked with black and white 2 inch Quad, and then moving onto Umatic in the 1970's. Jerry has witnessed every major shift in technology from film, tape, analogue, digital, linear, non-linear, RED, Avid, Final Cut Pro and more... In this interview Jerry talks about what he thinks is hot at NAB 2009 and where the technology may take us. During his 32 year professional show business career, Jerry has become an award winning theatrical actor, TV and film editor, writer, director and producer. He has produced hundreds of TV Commercials, industrial films, as well as broadcast television shows.

Wayne Andrews explains new features for MXO2 and details of the new rack-mounted model

30/03/2009

Rick Young
the latest release 1.3 of the software for the Matrox MXO2 provides several new features: Scaling on the input for capture; ProRes 422 720p capture on a MacBook Pro; Apple Xserve support. Also a look at the new rack-mounted version of the MXO2

Noise Industries FxFactory Pro

09/03/2009

Rick Young
Niclas Bahn, Business Development, Noise Industries, describes the company philosophy. "We're succeeding in revolutionising the plug-in business and bringing the technology to editors and also to other plug-in developers to really bring innovative solutions to Final Cut and After Effects users out there." In this interview Niclas Bahn, Business Development is featured along with Gabriele de Simone - Product Engineering and Design, Noise Industries. With 6 leading partners, and over 300 effects available, Noise Industries has achieved their goal of changing the way the plug-in world operates.

Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008

22/12/2008

Rick Young
10 of the best of the MacVideo interviews featured throughout 2008. This two part special includes interviews with Walter Murch, Ken Stone, Ramy Katrib, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.

Best of MacVideo Interviews 2008 (part 2)

21/12/2008

Rick Young
Part two of this special includes interviews with Richard Marx, Graeme Nattress, Garrett Brown and more. These are edited versions of the original interviews, taken from the MacVideo archive. Hear some of the most influential people in the world of digital video tell their stories.

Interview with Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven

07/11/2008

Rick Young
In November 2004 Digital Heaven introduced Multicam Lite. This was a breakthrough product as it provided the first true Multicam solution for Final Cut Pro, well before Multicam was integrated as part of Final Cut Pro 5. In this interview, Martin Baker, Founder of Digital Heaven, talks about the history of the company, the products on offer, their latest application - Loader, and what we have to look forward to next from Digital Heaven.

Abobe Interviews: Michael Coleman, Product Manager, Adobe After Effects and Simon Hayhurst, Sr. Director, Product Management, Dynamic Media

26/09/2008

Rick Young
Hear direct from the people at Abobe what the release of CS4 means for video editors. When CS3 was released this brought Abobe back to the Mac Platform for video editing. Now with CS4 Adobe takes another swipe at the market with new tools, new features, and new ways of doing things.

Interview with Roger Maybon, G-Technology

12/09/2008

Rick Young
G-Technology are well know for producing quality drives which are both reliable and capable of sustained levels of data transfer needed for high end video production. In this interview Roger Maybon talks about new products and developments for G-Tech for the the first half of 2008.

Interview with Giles Baker, Adobe

12/09/2008

Rick Young
Giles Baker, Senior Product Manager Adobe, talks about some of the key announcements made by Adobe in the first half of 2008 and comments on technologies Adobe has been working on which are yet to be integrated into the Adobe product-line.

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